Education
Lecturer Wants State Of Emergency On Education
A university lecturer, Dr Solomon Ibulubo has called for the declaration of state of emergency on education in Wakirike ethnic nationality.
Dr Ibulubo, a lecturer in the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, University of Port Harcourt made the call in his paper, “Promotion of Quality Education: Launching Wakirike on the Global Political and Socio-economic Platforms” presented during a leadership transformation summit held at the multi-purpose hall, Ogu in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area recently.
He said it is on record how education promoted and launched Wakirike on glonal political and socio-economic platforms in the days of the forefathers, as they laid a good foundation upon which Wakirike sons and daughters compete favourably in all human endeavours.
The lecturer who traced how christianity and education came to Wakirike as well as some personalities who had made the nation great and fame, but noted that many factors have come to play in recent times to change the table.
According to him, while the two Wakirike Local Governments Areas namely Okrika and Ogu/Bolo have a total of 47 primary and 10 secondary schools outside those in Wakirike section of Port Harcourt city Local Government council and having cost many because of insecurity on the sea, others have far above their number, stressing that “let us look at other specific areas where education have been exploited in Wakirike”.
Dr Ibulubo noted that it is on record that up to 1948, Wakirike was among the first ethnic groups, clans including Bayelsa that had primary school in 980 and also produced the first professor not only in the old Rivers State but in the whole of Ijaw land in person of Tekena Nitonye Tamuno, but wondered the recent backwardness in educational advancement in the nation.
He hinted that for better placement and development of education in Wakirike ethnic nationality, all available media platforms including churches should be used to create awareness on the need for the people to take their rightful place in the comity of education as well as encourage the opening of more private and public schools.
The university don also called on the Local government councils, Corporate organizations, groups and individuals to award scholarships to deserving pupils and students indiscriminately for a collective goal, appealing to leaders to emulate others who have walked through the same path or faced the same challenges.
“Leaders at all levels must live by example. A situation where leaders only rule by name or become agents of disunity is the greatest form of self-deceit and hypocrisy. No matter the level of education we must eschew bitterness, rancor, internal completion, strife and display benevolence and love in the true spirit of Wakirike”, Dr Ibulubo posited.
By: Collins Barasimaye.
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